The Census Powwow - Snap Classic
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🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Cheyenne Brady knew next to nothing about the US census when she was given the job of counting everyone on her reservation. Writer Julian Brave Noisecat follows her through the ups and downs of the 2020 census, culminating in the first-ever Census Powwow.
This story features descriptions of genocide and historical trauma, sensitive listeners please be advised.
A big, big thank you to everyone on the Fort Berthold Reservation. Especially Cheyenne Brady and her family: Novi Runs Above, Holy Rope, Tayvin, Poncho, Tookie, Uncle Thomas, and Grandma Florence.
Thank you also to Charlie Moran, Tavares Fimbres, Gabrielle Wilkinson, and Braedyn Taft, and Jazz Bearstail. Thanks to our friends at KMHA radio: Anne Morsette, Will Maguire, Ricky Raine, and Shelley Krueger for administering a rapid COVID test.
And big thanks to the whole Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation.
Sincerest thanks to Dr. Cheryl Ann Kary, Cheryl Keepseagle, Logan Davis, Barb Anguino, D’Vera Cohn, Byard Duncan, David Rodriguez, and Lycia Ortega Maddocks.
This story was produced in partnership with Type Investigations.
The original score was by Cheflee and Pat Mesiti-Miller
This story was produced and reported by Julian Brave NoiseCat and John Fecile
It was written by Julian Brave NoiseCat
Snap Classic - Season 15 – Episode 39
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Studios. |
| 0:08.0 | It started with a backpack at the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, |
| 0:12.0 | a backpack that contain a bomb. |
| 0:15.8 | While the authorities focused on the wrong suspect, a serial bomber planned his next |
| 0:19.6 | attacks, two abortion clinics, and a lesbian bar. |
| 0:24.0 | But this isn't his story, it's a human story, |
| 0:30.0 | one that I've become entangled with. |
| 0:32.0 | I saw, as soon as I turned the corner, |
| 0:33.8 | basically someone bleeding out. |
| 0:35.4 | The victims of these brutal attacks |
| 0:37.2 | were left to pick up the pieces, |
| 0:38.9 | forced to explore the gray areas between right and wrong, |
| 0:41.9 | life and death. Their once ordinary lives and |
| 0:45.1 | mine changed forever. It kind of gave me a feeling of pending doom. And all the |
| 0:50.8 | while our country found itself facing down a long and ugly reckoning with a growing threat. |
| 0:56.0 | Far right, homegrown religious terrorism. |
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| 1:06.0 | podcasts. |
| 1:07.0 | Okay, so the other day I'm watching this incredible new documentary. It's called Sugar |
| 1:17.6 | Kane and it's about a guy who goes on this journey to find what happened to his family at the Indian |
| 1:25.0 | residential school where they were sent in Canada and this documentary is |
| 1:31.0 | stunning and watching it I realize wait a minute wait a minute I know that guy that's Julian |
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